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Noting the potential sentencing reform benefit from the latest budget deal


"The Corporation as Snitch: The New DOJ Guidelines on Prosecuting White Collar Crime"

States find (unsurprisingly) that civil commitment for sex offenders not a simple solution

St Louis Speeding Ticket Attorney: Is It Really True That My Car Insurance Will Go Up If I Plead Guilty To A Traffic Ticket?

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ONLY $35 FOR MOST ST LOUIS SPEEDING TICKETS Yep, absolutely true. Why? Because a guilty plea on a St Louis speeding ticket will result in points being assessed to your permanent driving record. And when your automobile insurance provider sees this, your monthly rates will go through the roof. A recent study conducted by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch found that pleading guilty to a traffic ticket will raise your monthly premiums on average of 22%. And if you plead guilty to a subsequent ticket after that, your car insurance will jump up by an average of 53%. That’s a substantial increase in your monthly bills!! And not only will your insurance costs go up, you also run the risk of losing your driving privileges (especially if you have received too many points within a short period of time). This suspension could last for up to a year. But it does not have to play out this way!! We can make life a heck of a lot easier! Our goal would be to simply get the speeding or traffic…

Air Force Base Worker Charged With OVI, Reduced to Physical Control

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A man in his early 20s was working for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton when he was charged with an OVI. The man had a commercial driver’s license (CDL) and was concerned about the repercussions of an OVI conviction from a professional standpoint. Columbus OVI attorney Attorney Daniel Sabol represented the man. Our client [...]The post Air Force Base Worker Charged With OVI, Reduced to Physical Control appeared first on Columbus Criminal Attorney.

Marks et al. on Technology, Crime and Social Control

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Amber Marks , Ben Bowling and Colman Keenan (Queen Mary University of London, Law Department , King's College London – The Dickson Poon School of Law and King’s College London, Dickson Poon School of Law, Student) have posted Automatic Justice?...

Debating the Anti-Incarceration Changes

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The NYT's Room for Debate feature has this debate prompted by the murder of Officer Randolph Holder by a criminal out on a diversion program.  Included are pieces by CJLF President Michael Rushford and Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute.

Disagree? Sure, Why Not?

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What do you expect?  Occasionally (ahem), I take a position here with which someone disagrees. Hard to imagine, I know, but it happens. And contrary to popular opinion, it’s fine by me.  No rational person expects everyone to agree with them, or to agree with every view held.  People I hold in high regard disagree with me at times. People I don’t hold in high regard disagree with me at times as well. It’s fine. It doesn’t hurt my feelings. It doesn’t make me angry that you disagree. But what exactly do you think I am going to do about it?  There are times when someone will post a comment disagreeing with me, and I realize they are right and I’m wrong. Not often, but it happens.  Almost invariably, they offer a well-reasoned point and, upon reflection, the merit of their reasoning prevails. So why not you? Not every argument made here changes my mind. There are often two (or more) valid perspectives to an issue,…

Happy Halloween From All Of Us At Dayton DUI

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Happy Halloween from all of us at Dayton DUI “I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs. ” ― Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief Beware of the little monsters who will be running through our neighborhoods.  Check this site for any planned OVI sobriety checkpoints, or other law enforcement actions and please plan ahead by designating a sober driver (dress them as a cop). Dayton DUI Attorney Charles M. Rowland II dedicates his practice to defending the accused drunk driver in the Miami Valley and throughout Ohio.  He has the credentials and the…

When There Is No Pleasing The SJWs

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Rani Neutill has the pedigree one would hope for of an elite post-doc, teaching elite students at elite universities, and so would be sensitive to the myriad nuances of social justice.  And indeed, she is. And yet, she can’t win. About a year ago I was asked to teach a class about the evolution of the representation of sex throughout American Cinema. I started with the silent film (The Cheat) and ended with Spike Jonze’s disembodied sex in Her. Along the way, I showed a number of sexually graphic films that caused a great deal of controversy. Mind you, students who took the course should have noted its name, perhaps even read the course description, and so they would be reasonably expected to have a clue what the subject matter of the course might be, right? Midway through the semester, because of my work in sexual assault prevention, I was asked to fill in for the Director of the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention Services at the university. This was a…

Owen Labrie: Maxed For Melodrama

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Merrimack, Connecticut Judge Larry Smukler imposed sentence on Owen Labrie, the former St. Paul’s student, for the rape he didn’t commit. With cameras in the courtroom to capture his judicialishness, he gratuitously added his own moral scolding. Judge Smukler also said that Mr. Labrie, in maintaining that he and the girl had not had sex, had stuck to the mantra, “Deny ’til you die,” which is sometimes used by St. Paul’s students. “In some ways, you’re a very good liar,” the judge said. Judges have magical powers to tell such things as which witness is a very good liar, no matter what the jury found. There’s a little-known red light behind the bench that goes off when a witness is lying, but they’re not allowed to tell the jury. They alone can see it. And, of course, no male student at St. Paul’s tells the truth, because “Deny ’til you die,” is something they “sometimes…

Protect Your Rights at a DUI Checkpoint/Road Block

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In Mississippi, if convicted of driving under the influence (DUI), you face penalties from both the court and the Mississippi Department of Public Safety. The legal limit for blood alcohol content (BAC) is 0.08%, and if you are found driving with a BAC of higher concentration, you are almost guaranteed to receive an alcohol-related citation (and some pretty hefty penalties, along with it). Even if your BAC is below the legal limit, you are opening yourself up to significant trouble if you choose to drink and drive. You can view a list of possible penalties at DMV.org. In any case, if you are a resident of Mississippi, you need to be familiar with what a DUI roadblock is and how to protect your rights if you are stopped at one of these checkpoints. DUI checkpoints are sometimes also referred to as "sobriety checkpoints" or "DUI roadblocks". They are only permitted in certain jurisdictions, and the state of Mississippi happens to be one of them. It's…

Changes to sex offender rules up for discussion at Rehoboth Town Meeting

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10-31-15 Massachusetts: REHOBOTH — The laws regulating where a person convicted of being a sex offender can live or spend time will be strengthened within the town’s bylaws if voters approve Article 8 at Monday night’s special Town Meeting. Article 8, one of 13 total articles up for discussion at the 7 p.m. meeting on Nov. 2, calls for adding Section 29 — a new section — to the town’s

Prosecutor: We'll test DNA if we can still execute you, anyway

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Grits found it remarkable that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals continued to deny death-row Larry Swearingen DNA testing even after the Legislature changed the law this year ostensibly to allow it. See Judge Keasler's ruling denying testing, Judge Yeary's partial concurrence and partial dissent, and Judge Alcala's dissent. (The rulings interpret the version of the statute before this spring's changes.)The Houston Chronicle's Cindy Horswell had by far the best coverage of the ruling (Oct. 28). This observation, to me, summed up the absurdity of the situation: Montgomery County DA Brett Ligon "said his office has offered to do the additional DNA testing since 2013 - if Swearingen's attorneys' would agree the findings would not alter the outcome of the case." So, he's willing to have DNA testing performed so long as Swearingen can still be executed if he turns out to be innocent ... the mind reels!In that light, the Court of…

Modifying the Standard No Contact Order in Hillsborough County, FL

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Chief Judge Ronald N. Ficarrotta recently signed an Administrative Order S-2015-053 addressing the Standard No-Contact Order on September 29, 2015. The new administrative order is intended to comply with recent amendments to section 903.047 related to the conditions of pretrial release.Now if the case has a "victim," the automatic and standard "no contact" provision will be imposed. The prohibition is absolute until modified by the court. As anyone in the criminal justice system knows, there are many situations in which some type of contact between the accused and the alleged victim is justified and where an absolute ban would result in injustice. The injustice often leaves even the alleged victim feeling frustrated and disgruntled with the criminal justice system.It can also result in a serious financial hardship on people in the system. Bills can't be paid, children can't get to school, doctor appointments are missed, and people can't go to…

SCOTUS's Roads Not Taken

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On Thursday, the Supreme Court of the United States denied a stay to Florida murderer Jerry Correll, who was an exemplar of why anything less than death is inadequate for some killers.  See prior post.  One thing about executions is that they force SCOTUS to a decision.  In most cases when the Supreme Court denies review it says little about the merits of the argument.  It may be that they are just waiting for a better vehicle.  When they say, in effect, "go ahead and fry him," it's a much stronger indication that a majority thinks his claim lacks merit.Justices Breyer and Sotomayor dissented.  Justice Breyer, alone, reiterated his support for at least taking up what is known as the Lackey claim "whether nearly 30 years of incarceration under sentence of death is cruel and unusual punishment."  The oddity of that claim is that the long delay is over the vehement objection of the state and, in most cases, the…

Saturday College Football Open Thread

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It's WLCOP Day! The picks: Notre Dame @ Temple +11 (3 units), Tennessee @ Kentucky +9 (3 units), Miami Florida +14 (3 units) @ Duke, Texas -4 (3 units) @ Iowa State, Michigan @ Minnesota +14(3 units), Oklahoma State @ Texas Tech +3 (3... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Would making Daylight Savings Time permanent reduce crime?

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Would making Daylight Savings Time permanent reduce crime? Reported the Houston Chronicle's Mike Glenn (Oct. 30):Daylight saving time will come to an end at 2 a.m. Sunday, but a pair of researchers say crime across the nation could drop and millions of dollars could be saved if everyone forgot to fall back and just made it permanent.Shifting daylight from the morning to the early evening has "pretty hefty returns for public safety," authors Jennifer Doleac and Nicholas Sanders wrote in Brookings about their upcoming paper in The Review of Economics and Statistics."When (daylight saving time) begins in the spring, robbery rates for the entire day fall an average of seven percent, with a much larger 27 percent drop during the evening hour that gained some extra sunlight," they wrote.See more detail from Brookings. There's a certain logic to the argument, to be sure:The study found that most crime occurred in the evening, generally between 5…

Federal Gun Law and Misdemeanor Domestic Violence

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One of the oddities of federal gun law is that the right to bear arms is generally taken away only for felonies, but domestic violence is treated specially, and the right to own a gun can be taken away for a misdemeanor.A recurring problem in both gun possession law and recidivist sentencing is dealing with the wide variety of ways that crimes are defined in the 50 states and handful of almost-states that make up our federal republic.  Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court took up the "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence" question in Voisine v. United States, No. 14-10154.  Amy Howe has this post at SCOTUSblog.Counsel for the defendants asked the Court to take two questions:1. Does a misdemeanor crime with the mens rea of recklessness qualify as a "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence" as defined by 18 U.S.C. §§ 921(a)(33)(A) and 922(g)(9)?2. Are 18 U.S.C. §§ 921(a)(33)(A) and 922(g)(9) unconstitutional under the Second, Fifth,…

Amparo contra la ONP - DU Nº 074-2010

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Deseo agradecer públicamente al colega, amigo real y virtual, Dr. Marco Antonio Silva Santisteban Torres, por compartir con todos sus colegas, sin más interés que proporcionar información jurídica de actualidad nacional e internacional. Y,  en mi caso, especialmente porqué la información  llega justo cuando la necesito, disposición (de colaboración)  que de alguna manera extiendo al publicar mis demandas y lo poco que le importa al Poder Judicial que en nuestro País se combata la corrupción. Amparo contra ONP y DU Nº 074-2010 Un nuevo Juez constitucional (Ricardo CHANG RACUAY) que está muy pero muy lejos de responder a la responsabilidad que el estado le ha encargado: ADMINISTRAR JUSTICIA, será objeto de mis críticas sin olvidar un solo instante al “tremendo juez” David Suarez Burgos. Me pregunto ¿Cuál el sistema de elección…
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